Cape Vincent and Clayton, New York

The New York coast from Lake Ontario to the Thousand Island Bridge was today's tour. It is interesting being so close that we can leave the house at noon, get the Wolfe Island Ferry at 12:30, get the Horne Ferry at 1:30 and be in the States at 1:40 after driving about 15 km and taking two boats.

At the lighthouse, I took this shot of a lighthouse over seven miles off shore, the East Charity Shoals Light. The image below was taken with my digital camera help up to the eye piece of one of those "25 cents for five minutes" telescopes. The results were amazingly sharp. Here is a US Coast Guard photo for comparison. You can see that I was able to pick out the chain fencing at a pretty good distance. The tripod light at Pigeon Island on the Canadian side of the boundary was also visible.

The East Charity Shoals Light

So we booted back through Cape Vincent, picking up a six of Genny Cream en route and checked out Clayton which we just checked out for a further visit. It is home of the Antique Boat Museum where one might find some entirely nice and helpful retired volunteers. Ten minutes to the big bridges, 30 on the 401 and home by six.

Comments

Gasoline: 87 octane gas in Clayton New York was 2.18 USD a gallon which works out at 60 US cents a litre (3.58 litres to the US gallon) or 81 cents CND (at a 1.35 exchange rate. The same basic grade is 86 or 87 cents CND in Kingston per litre.</li><li>

Genny six pack: At the LCBO, 7.00 CND all in. At Cape Vincent, 4.50 for the beer, 30 cents for the bottle deposit plus 1.40 of the entire purchase of 21.27 or an effective 6.6% sale tax for another 30 cents USD on the six. That makes 5.10 USD for the Genny which is 6.88 CND.</li></ul>

Not much of a premium on living in Canada as far as the necessities go.

Hi My Name is Nicholette Cougler,My Grandparents Jean and George Cougler used to own Tibbets Point LightHouse in Cape Vincent Ny.I had a question about the lighthouse in the middle of the lake and was wondering if it was on the land where tibbets point is located now? Is the lighthouse haunted?Please write me back!Thanks,Nicholette Cougler

Feeds

Search

Articles

Pick any day's tunes as heard on CBC Ottawa's All in a Day hosted by my personal emailing buddy, Brent Bambury. You won't find a better music selection on radio anywhere - certainly not on the deeply dowdy CBC.

From Jan to March 2006, I tried a group humour blog with others on the subject of Canadian politics. It did not last but the posts were worth keeping. #16 was banned. There were no comments. It was at www.shadowcabinet.ca.